Leopold and Loeb
THE CRIME OF THE CENTURY
Illini Books Ed edition
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Word Count
96,000 words, Guess
Page Count
384 pages
Physical Format
Paperback
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL9549433M
- ISBN-139780252068294
- ISBN-100252068297
- OCLC Control Number40619379
- Library of Congress Control Number99010745
and 2 more
- LibraryThing145751
- Goodreads675552
Classifications
- LCCHV6245 .H46 1999
Description
"Among the criminal celebrities of Prohibition-era Chicago, not even Al Capone was more notorious than two well-educated and highly intelligent Jewish boys from wealthy South Side families. In a meticulously planned murder scheme disguised as a kidnapping, Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb chose fourteen-year-old Bobby Franks at random as their victim, abandoning his crumpled body in a culvert before his parents had a chance to respond to the ransom demand.". "Revealing secret testimony and raising questions that have gone unanswered for decades, Hal Higdon separates fact from myth as he unravels the crime, the investigation, and the trial in which Leopold and Loeb were defended by the era's most famous attorney, Clarence Darrow. Higdon's razor sharp account of their chilling act, their celebrity, and their ultimate emergence as folk heroes resonates unnervingly in our own violent time."--BOOK JACKET.
First Sentence
Autumn had captured the land by the second weekend of November in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Excerpt
Autumn had captured the land by the second weekend of November in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
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